Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Gitmo Now Breeding Ground for Terrorists

A McClatchy investigation found that instead of confining terrorists,Guantanamo often produced more of them by rounding up common criminals,conscripts, low-level foot soldiers and men with no allegiance to radical Islam- thus inspiring a deep hatred of the United States in them - and then housingthem in cells next to radical Islamists.The radicals were quick to exploit the flaws in the U.S. detention system.Soldiers, guards or interrogators at the U.S. bases at Bagram or Kandaharin Afghanistan had abused many of the detainees, and they arrived at Guantanamoenraged at America.The Taliban and al Qaida leaders in the cells around them were ready to preach their firebrand interpretation of Islam and the need to wage jihad, Islamic holy war, against the West. Guantanamo became a school for jihad, complete with a council of elders who issued fatwas, binding religious instructions, to the other detainees.Rear Adm. Mark H. Buzby, until recently the commanding officer at Guantanamo, acknowledged that senior militant leaders gained influence and control in his prison."We have that full range of (Taliban and al Qaida) leadership here, why would they not continue to be functional as an organization?" he said in a telephone interview."I must make the assumption that there's a fully functional al Qaidacell here at Guantanamo."

Congratulations, neocons! Now we won't run out of enemies when we need them, so we can fight more cool wars and ruin more economies and increase the gap between rich and poor which should create the huge vacuum we need to survive as neocon "profligate conservatives"!